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Sex Ratios, Polygyny, and the Value of Women in Marriage: A Beckerian Approach

Grossbard, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

that this analysis has been expanded and tested. Becker also used D&S analysis to develop his argument that polygyny … benefits women and used the positive association between brideprice and polygyny as evidence. Relying on D&S models of marriage … polygyny may be harmful to women. Furthermore, the positive association between brideprice and polygyny does not necessarily …

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Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China

Sun, Ang; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in favor of women and secured women's property rights after separation. We use this improvement in...

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From Polygyny to Serial Monogamy: A Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions

de la Croix, David; Mariani, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

marriage institutions: polygyny, strict monogamy, and serial monogamy (divorce and remarriage). After having identified the … regime from polygyny to monogamy. The introduction of serial monogamy follows from a further rise in either the proportion of … promotes the upward social mobility of females more than polygyny. We also show that polygyny is compatible with democracy. …

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Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households

Akresh, Richard; Chen, Joyce J.; Moore, Charity - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

polygyny. Nor can they be explained by greater propensity for cooperation among women generally or by the household head acting …

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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status: Evidence from North Indian Villages

Bhattacharya, Manasi; Bedi, Arjun S.; Chhachhi, Amrita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Dominant development policy approaches recommend women's employment on the grounds that it facilitates their empowerment, which in turn is believed to be instrumental in enhancing women's well-being. However, empirical work on the relationship between women's employment status and their...

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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982−2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003

Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...

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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh

Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Das, Maitreyi Bordia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger cohort being far more positive...

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It's a Boy! Women and Non-Monetary Benefits from a Son in India

Zimmermann, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they derive substantial long-run non-monetary benefits from giving birth to a son in the form of an improvement in their...

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Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power

Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with unobserved factors that also affect bargaining power within...

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